I have written a GNU find
-like emulator in Swift out of curiosity, and have stumbled upon this time disparity:
$ time find / &>/dev/null
real 1m6.040s
$ time swiftly-find /
real 5m43.028s
The Swift code is as follows:
let enumeration = FileManager.default.enumerator(at: URL(string: "\(from)/")!, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil, errorHandler: { (at: URL, with: Error) in
print("Error \(with) encountered at directory \(at)"); return true
})!
var list = String()
for i in enumeration {
let result = String(describing: i).replacingOccurrences(of: "file://", with: "")
list.append("\(result)\n")
print(result)
}
Why is it that Swift's enumerator
is so significantly slower than GNU find
? Is there a way to speed up the Swift code to reach similar speeds as find
?